He's been nigh about twenty years, and them cool Yon fool Dune broke magic
and the world ain't been right since monster freon from them other worlds running round
tero cles and down in a bole and got the gree Gree water. This
is some kind of evil set on sort of good many folk. So beware,
my friends, go carefully. Amy Lazy brought them else. The mucky
water gonna lead you to the grave. So come with us as we go
on another fool's quest, all the true blood. I'll unsling a mood from
a back and just kick it in. Days it was unlocked. You smash,
you kick it in, It breaks the lash and the door bounce off
the wall inside um And as you step through this room, there's a there's
a huge some kind of machinery in the middle of the room. The room
itself is about twenty five feet across, but there's this big chunk of machinery,
some kind of pump or something that's about fifteen feet wide by twenty feet
long, right in the middle of the room, with a pipe that seems
to go kind of all the way through it, like in one end and
up the other end of this thing that pipe is about four feet off the
floor. Everything is covered with this sticky, slimy munk and its stinks.
And as you go through the door, make a wisdom saving thrill wisdom saving
through fifteen fifteen. So you as you go through the door, you're vision
just kind of goes a little bit gray for a second. You get a
weird feeling, but you shake it off. Yeah, this room is thirty
five by twenty five. It's that big pump in the center of it.
Um chugging away too. It's noisy, and the pipe comes from the south
ball goes into the north ball. Why do you think this pump is far?
Probably for pumping all the ship. Bear, we need a pump for
ship. Well, if you want to live in from the here to therea
do we need a pump for our maynnais we do now things better than all
of us too. I still have her deuce she has poking around in there.
You're just standing near the doorway or yea, a wisdom save. It
was seventeen. Okay, you also get something weird. I'll go and last
there's a save. I need to make wisdom save. Um, you get
a weird sensation like you almost at The sound gets a little bit muted for
a second, but it comes back and shake it off. That was weird.
Eleven now, like how you said that back at me? Eleven is
lower than fourteen. That's only if you use standard math. How only if
you're a mathematologist. He's some kind of nerd jesse. You hear a like
a brief not here really feel I don't know, a brief fuzzying in your
hand head, almost like a mosquito inside your skull. Just just terribly annoying.
But it only last about two seconds and you shake it off. Um,
but you just gotta just kind of throws you off. You feel a
little off. Everybody else get that? So it's too loud? Yeah,
the vibration from the pump made me a little nauseous when I first came in,
But I'm good now. The smell, the smell is bad. It's
not even a poop smell. It's all sulfurous, just foul, rotting me
all kinds of the horrible smells. It smells like my teleport. He gets
me the calm down. Why are you here? We're looking around now,
are you? Yeah? Making investigation checks? Investigation not intimidation. Oh,
Hey, I might do some seventeen ten. Yeah, you're too. You're
looking around. These two are just looking at the pump. Man, I
wonder what it's pumping in there. We're looking at the pump and only I
see it somehow, but might make it smaller. Just listening to the four
foot pipe, just listening to it gurgle ran near the near the corner of
fur that's from the door. Um, you had to kind of duck under
that pipe to get over there. But you find the sludge is a little
thinner on the on the floor, like it's been scraped off, and then
you sort of scuff some of it off with your with your shoe, and
you find a summoning diagram underneath the sludge, and it's it's all messed up
from the sludge and you scrape and everything. Now it's not you're not able
to tell what was summoned, and it certainly wouldn't be usable now, but
at some point it was probably used, is it conjuration? School of conjuration?
Yes, hey, guys, look over you get away from the pump
for fox say sorry, I'm here, so I'm gonna yeah, I'll go
over and see h Pilser just comes out from underneath when I'm like trying to
get something dripping off his finger. Oh, anyway, we look down here.
This is a conjuration summing portal. So someone got something cute, but
I can't tell what. But normally when something gets summoned in undertown, it's
not good, right, I'm not. I'm gonna look at see if I
could tell what was summoned. My guess is it's a pump monster, make
our canocheck or religion. Actually lab work, not twenty nineteen. Wowhit wait,
it's soft twenty No, not twenty not twenty nine. I forgot you
got then, whether or not you told me what this was, I was
gonna tell them what this was. So the diagram itself is pretty messed up
from where Wren walked on it then scuffed the sludge off to try to clear
it off. So it's hard to tell exactly what was summone, but it
was definitely something from the bis, something demotic. There was a demon.
Oh that's why it smells like teleporting in year. That's pretty heavy. Oh
I thought it was me? Sorry, how heavy is the demon? Can
you tell from the diagram? No? No? No? Heavy like uh
like it's it's it's a brooding thought to think about. I never mind,
I forgot something, but carry on. I feel like something anomalous mark that's
got instea. All right, so I'm gonna something. But other than that
summoning diagram the pump, there's not really anything else to find in there.
All right, let's leave this room. It's really loud in year. Yeah
that go pills are in the lead again. Yeah, to go down the
tunnel takes another left and then it only goes about forty feet and it ends
um the canal and in the floor though, takes a sharp left and then
goes through a door at the end of this tunnel. Another again, it
goes underneath the door, through the like the grates there there is another door
there. This one's still slimmy, but doesn't smell nearly as bad or as
nasty as that last one. For the love of will you please check for
traps before we go through this one? Yeah? Oh, all right,
because I've been real good today, so I'm gonna go home, look for
look for traps. I'm assuming investigation. Yes, all right, please be
good. Twenty that's a glass of twenty. Actually find an old trap that
was disarmed. It looks real old and decrepit, but there's nothing, nothing
on it. Now, see, you guys, this was trap. Here's
the trap right here. And even though I know it's disarmed, I'm gonna,
like, you know, fill it. But yeah, yeah, so
it's a it's a little poisoned needle trap that's supposed to shoot out of the
wall and stab your hand if you grab the door knob. But it was
disarmed, and so it was just sitting in the wall there, so you
could have been poison You are so lucky. I saved your life. While
he's saying this, I'm going to press the digetation and make it shoot out
sparks. You're waving it around and then it just sparks in your hand.
This is why I teleport and feet away. Leave the trap there. I'm
just going you should really right where you were standing. You should really be
more careful. Anyway, what do you guys? Want to open the door?
Now? All right? Kick it in? Kick it in again.
This is the smallest room, about fifteen by fifteen. There's another door at
the far side, and that canal in the center goes straight through, but
it uh the canal goes through the west side of the room, just straight
north and south to the east side of the room. In the in the
north and south corners there are holes like the holes in the ceiling and floor
with the big bundles of pipes going through. But the one in the northeast
corner, that whole bundle of pipes is just rusted away into nothing. There's
just sort of some stubs sticking out of the ceiling and they end about three
feet from the floor above this hole. Keep looking around rights. The hole
itself is like it sounds of like a manhole, you know, maybe two
and a half three feet across, And keep looking around. You look down
there, you see it's dark. I'll go look down there is there like
a ladder or anything that leads down. There's not. Um. The floor
itself seems to be about five feet thick, and then it opens into another
corridor down there where these pipes are rusted all the way down to the floor.
Um. One level down, yeah, one level down. Well,
we're dumb. We were in undertown and all yet that's where undertown is.
Oh well, we were already undertown. I'm going down make up perception thirteen
for me, So yeah, I just start lowering myself down a seventeen what
was it perception seventeen? So pills are an elmer. As Ren starts to
lower himself down over the edge of this without a rope or anything, I'm
not sure how your plane I get back. Oh you can teleport, I
can teleport. Um. You go through some sort of soft sort of a
soft rustling noise down. There's sort of whispering rustling stock. We can hear
it. I know, I'm going to investigate. I didn't know lower yourself
too much. Let's see five feet you got another foot, so you're about
nine feet from the floor. Just d angle there, yes, no,
no out. It goes and ties itself to a pipe and drops down,
so you're able to climb down on the note brope. And are you doing
so? Yeah? Yeah, you've been shouting and stuff. Yeah, we
haven't really been quiet. Yeah, like kicking doors in if we were yelling
over the pump. Yeah. So this is just a short little stretch of
tunnel. Um. There's this bundle of pipe that's that's all rusted away.
About twenty feet away is another bundle of pipe that's also mostly rusted up to
about four feet above the floor here. But there's a creature there there.
It looks like a great big cricket with big feathery antennas, and it's just
brushing those antennas about the against the pipes, which are just rusting under them,
sucking up the dust. You and why do you do? You have
a four daggers? Uh huh, and that's about all the metal you have.
Huh. Yep, I got a great big battle axe. You have
a great big battle axe and your daggers and probably sheathed since you were just
climbing down a rope. So as you, yeah, put your feet down,
they make a little bit of noise. It turns and looks, and
then it just goes back to just eating those those pipes down there? Are
you guys coming down? Yeah? I'm shimming down the note broke. Do
I see anything else that would want me that I might think would be a
good reason to stay down here? Um, those pipes they go through the
ceiling. There's a wider access hole over there. Make a make another perception
check while you're down here. Nine. This is bullying done anything. But
on that end, there's like a ladder that goes up through that access cheft.
Okay um ladders. The ladders here are like carved into the stone,
so it's not a metal one or anything. It's like stone steps, stone
rung was carved into the wall. But you can't see anything too interesting,
just that that restponster m h. Well, I point that there's a thing
over there, but I still expect them to come down here. I was
chimmying down. He's shimming down, h Pilsner. As you touched to touch
the floor with your great big battle axe, and you see this thing.
You recognize the rust monster as well. And it turns and seems a little
more interested. And I'm back up the rope. Go back up, No,
no, no, goes back up? What did you do? That's
a rust monster. He's gonna eat mood big old lollipop. Well, with
the ladder is over there, we've gotta get over there, all right,
get back, put it tart it curl the rust monster in a tart.
I'm at the axe. Em it makes more sense. Just throw the tarp
over the monster and run to the ladder. We'll throw the torpoter like a
net. Just run right over. I'll hide behind it. We're not here.
Have might work, Yeah, we've done stupider things. It's pretty narrow,
though there's there is how like how wide is the hallway? Like how
much? It's about the same as the hallways room before. This one doesn't
have that canal in the center, but the same kind of worked stone,
real tight ten feet by ten Hi. I don't want to climb down there.
I'll climb down. I have a croft bow and bolts on me.
I'm just inching toward the ladder like on the other side, just just slowly
moving and expecting them to follow. I guess I don't. I'll wait until
Elmer comes down, get the nopril down and with my back away from the
rust monster and making eye contact the entire way, start inching my way toward
Wren. As you come down and you come a little closer to it,
it sort of backs up from the pipes and turns towards do it chirps like
a cricket, but it's super loud, deeper somehow, Um, I'll figure
it out, and it starts. It starts coming towards the real initiative.
Oh god, damn it pills. What did you do? It smells mood?
It does I only got a six this time, which makes sense because
I wasn't trying to Initiative twenty one. So pills are your first, followed
by the rust monster. Okay, do I see the ladder he's headed for.
Yes, you do. Okay, I dash best I can. Okay,
you don't actually have to dash, so you could even take the disengage
action to get by it without opportunity. You attack and get to that ladder.
Okay, it's his room's only about twenty feet long, and then you
can climb up out of its reach. Okay, you do that. Pillser
comes running by you guys and edge the edges pass and monster kind of gives
it a shove with his foot to keep it back because it tries to.
But yeah, you get about ten feet up the ladder and it can't reach
you, and it is completely ignoring YouTube. Um Okay, it follows pills
and are over and it's kind of up on a tie and legs, just
waving those and tenda at mood. But the head of your axe is well
out of its reach. Nice heads back over by those pipes. Uh,
Elmer, run you guys kind of kinda kill it. You're gonna just go
and buy it? What do you while it was chasing him. I made
my way down the hallway and then I'm just kind of like sneaking around the
edge. I'm gonna try to go up the ladder. I'm chung around it
too. Yeah, yeah, it seems not interested in you guys just eating
those pipes, which are noticeably shorter than they were when you first. That's
not a good four or five four or five inches shorter, But do mean
the rust monster and the dragon. I can reduce it and you can stick
it in your pocket if you want. Whatever it likes mayonnaise, stop it
so it likes metal. You climb up the ladder, and it dipped in
mayonnaise, opens into just another another one of these corridors. This one's just
short as Splits goes left end right, but you can hear some noise coming
from the left. You hear someone whistling. It sounds like it's faint,
like it's little ways away and maybe behind the door. But you hear someone
whistling. Oh god, I'm gonna attempt to sneak towards the whistle and see
if I can get at I make your stealth check. I've failed every perception
rule tonight, So I probably don't even hear the whisper fourteen. I'm just
thinking about the rust monster fourteen. How are you going back ahead of the
group, you guys. Yeah, I'm getting in front of the group and
kind of sneaking towards the whistle try and see if I can get a view.
So the pipe goes down and switch or the tunnel, I'm sorry,
it goes down and switches back, And just after the switch back, about
twenty feet down is a door and you can see light shining through, you
know, the cracks around the door a little bit. This one's seems to
be lit behind it. It's also very clean in this corridor, like just
this stretch after the switch back has been it looks like the stones are like
maybe scrubbed regularly. There's none of that mildew in slime and crap that you
see everywhere else on the floor in the walls. It's very clean. Okay,
um, yeah, I'll try and sneak up to the door and see
if I can peek underneath or something, see any kind of movement or shadows
or anything. You go up to the door, you can't peek underneath,
but you can hear someone whistling inside, and it's sounds like a guy whistling
and I don't know, moving some furniture around or something in your little bumps
and slides and scuffs. I'll sneak back to them and let them know what
I heard. Did you check it for traps? No? I figured he
just kate now whatever, or you could check it for traps. You did
so good with the last he did saved our lives. It's true that thing
was going to explode or something. I don't remember what it was. Good.
I knew I wasn't listening. I'll go over and check over traps investigation
m only at twelve this time. You don't find any traps this time.
All right, you guys are lucky. I've been doing this. We're in
the clear with this one. Go ahead. Oh, if there's a light
and so I listened, maybe motion just go ahead and knock. You didn't
knock on the other doors, Well there wasn't, so we lived with her.
How do you know their rust monster kick the door? Oh this was
sturdy. Uh, you don't break the latch, but it actually wasn't latched,
so it smash smacks the the wall behind it. On the other side
and that will slash You can't got a glimpse of some guy go, oh
shit, you catch it? Yeah? There is there is uh inside polished
wood red like like burgundy leather seat cushions. This is a very very nice
looking tavern. There's oil lamps around the walls and little candles on the tables.
There's half a dozen tables, half a dozen booths, and then a
bar there. And there is a very old goblin taking chairs off the tables.
And he's the one who's been whistling. He looks very surprised that you
just kicked his door open. Ur our hairbrew. When are you the tavern
keeper who's been new to the group. Oh you're there's some kind of half
goblin, right, there's no goblins older than Maybe we have to kill him,
that demon. I'm the oldest goblet. Old me. What guys,
this is a fancy establishment. There's not even any lego chairs. Well this
is the tavern? Oh this is this undertown? Then? Well this is
I suppose you call it undertown? Yes, I suppose so. Welcome to
the Tavern of Undertown. Pretty seat yourselves. I'll be with you in a
moment to take your order. Goes and finishes taking the chairs off the tables.
He was almost done. It's just got more more table chairs on him.
Right, So it's kind of walk in and feel kind of cheapish after
kicking his door in place. Is very nice. It's very finely taken care
of, like very clean, well taken care of, just cozy atmosphere.
You can smell some kind of food, smells delicious, little spicy. Kicked
him muck off my shoe before I could walk. Yeah, there's a brush
by the door and can scrape the you know, the gi the goon and
the mud off. How do you stay in business? Oh? You know?
Group members come down and want to drink, and well, I'm here
for him, and you guys must be new to the group. Yeah,
yes, or new yup? I figured or you wouldn't have kicked my door
like that, you don't know, and you could just open it. Well,
after the last couple of months, we just figured it was precautionary.
You know. He finishes up with his chairs and comes over and pulls out
an order pad and well, would you like to eat? Would you like
to drink? I'm just just resting a bit. What do you what'll it
be then don't usually see my first customer. I was still the evening and
then still morning far as I can tell. So you who got my undivided
attention as it were? Ider? He hasn't he and my dad's dad's bruise,
I know, And I make my own bear. Oh dude, don't
take it from others. Cool. Yeah, let me try the house special.
Then. No, I've got a mushroom stout. Go get that ready
for you. Why would you like to eat? I've got frog legs and
okron At the moment that sounds great, I'll ye all of these things.
Oh, I'll bring it back out. And he's gone for about five minutes.
Let's guys sit there. This is a, as I said, very
nice place. There's like trophies on the walls, you know, heads from
big alligators that have been killed and things like that. Guessing he probably didn't
kill that all of them, but who knows. I do a lap around
the establishment and see if I can discern anything that might tell me what kind
of group this is that we've joined. Make another investigation. Check it's a
fourteen. You remember, Actually there was a little it's a little mark that
you'd seen scratched on the doorway. You go back and look and you're like,
that looks familiar, And then you turn around and look at the mirror,
and the mirror behind the bar is the same shape. It is a
mark that you've been told means something in thieves can't but you have no idea
what it means. Does he have any like cocktail, napkins or anything in
this fine establishment? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, down the
bar, there's like a little you know, one of those little things with
napkins and little stair sticks and yeah, olives and lemon slice. I'll grab
three of those out and I will start tracing that that thieves can't image.
I assume it's an emoji of some sort, and yeah, I hand one
to each of the other people. In case we get carded. You have
to think of what emoji it'll be, because we Sacoley sho he's gumble yeah
yeah down head in the bios say Clay Magne feet. We're gonna take a
quick break to grab us some crawleins and maybe dress us up and move a
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three plates of food and he's carrying him guys. A pro just so graceful
sets him down and there's yeah, a bunch of frog legs and fried okram.
Oh, I was gonna look up like I didn't take that note insert
ad breaking. I got distracted. Okay, huh. I start eating the
frog legs in the okra. They're delicious. They are delicious. Did you
add garlic to this? Well? Of course I have some garlic to the
bread. Elmer, you might think this so little spicy from just hints of
paprika. Here we go. Just her mouth's gonna be on fire. Listen
here, black Pepper, I don't think you can stomach this, I am
going to flavor his. I'm gonna flavor his um frog's legs and make them
spicy shit with pressed vegetation, because that's an option my favorite spell. Just
fun. What stuff coming up? All right? Um, so your your
frog legs are super spicy. It's actually a series of two emojis. It's
the beer mug and the pizza slice emojis. Okay, I'm gonna eat mine
and stare him down while he sweats. Um. Yeah, it's very spicy,
but delicious and nourishing. And the mushroom stout is surprisingly good. Great,
I'm drinking a lot of the mushroom stout, trying to downd the spicy.
When he's dropping it off, I'm gonna ask him, so have you
seen Sam come through here lately? This Sam o Sam Flanders looking for his
buddy Flanders. Oh, Flanders, Flanders, that's what I don't think.
I know what Flanders either. I haven't had anyone today. My first customers
of the day, As I said, much earlier than I would normally expect,
especially group members. Aren't you usually active at night? But well that's
why they expect you. Nobody expects it in the morning. No, I
suppose not. Yeah, broadly see anyone today last night for her a little
busy, but no one I didn't recognize. There was no Flanders or Sam.
Well, I don't think they're better, they're part of the group.
I think we're we're like looking for them. I don't even might have heard
some some something about the Sam and Flanders and we're just trying to follow up
on some beads. They're a little hot man. Um, yeah, Flanders
would have come down here like a week ago. I think a week ago.
I haven't had any unusual visitors. I can say, really, yours
as the first faces I haven't recognized, but I suppose it makes sense if
you're new first first phases in a while I haven't recognized. Oh well,
so Flanners didn't come through this way? I suppose not. So there's an
exit other than the one that we used or no? Yeah, so oh
no from the tavern? No, no, just the one entrance. Um,
the room before the rust monster had another door, and then the tunnel
to the tavern here went the other way too. Hey, uh, I
don't suppose you would have like some sort of a map or diagram of these
kind of you see we're done here. Where you get a little turned around,
you know, must be a new at all. Oh, we get
back out to the surface. You just go back down the corridor you came,
little twist and turn aways, but eventually you'll reach that ladder up.
Okay, so that's a no on the map. Then, Oh no,
I don't have any map. Okay, gotcha. Just there and there really
aren't any branching paths off that corridor that that you'd you'd mistake for the right
way. Just just don't crawl through any pipes and you should be fine.
Oh yeah, we run into a couple of things here and there, unusual
between here and in the street. But I suppose not on a herb.
Maybe it's just the way we came in. Now, Oh it could be,
could be. Well, anything else I can get you look like you
could do to refill? Oh yes, please, man, I'll take another
two. This is pretty good. Do you have me olives? He does
have olives. He goes and gets another couple of mugs there and brings over
some olives and a bowl of peanuts. So I don't know if the peanuts
will hope. I didn't think I made it very spicy. But they're all
spicy elves, they're all spicy. I just keep doing the peanuts, the
olives, the mug beer, all of it. You're cruel. I'm just
sweating. I bet you got a potion to fix that. Right, My
teleportations are going to be real stinky later. O God, can that the
teleport you to fart? Done? Deal? I grab a few of those
little plastic sword things that they have at bars, and I give them to
Pilsner. This is in case we come across the rust monster again. Maybe
you got anything bigger, my bigger baby, Pilsner can supersize it. Elbert.
Yeah, I'm sorry. The olives are way hotter than they thought they'd
be. Got. I'll just a badge of the talking. I'll tuck one
of the plastic swords locket, keep putting a little cocktail swords. Find some
umbrellas too hand one to eat to us here, it's like a ant man.
Well shall we go? So? Yeah, you finish up eating and
finish your mugs. Uh, you just have the two? Yeah, I
mean yeah, it's too hot. I won't make it. I won't make
you con safer. Two then head back out. Yeah, by half a
great time you go back down the hole with the rush sponsor you go down
the tunnel there further probably tunnel the tunnel first. Yeah, yeah, this
one, as I said, is it is much cleaner than the ones you've
been down before. And this one doesn't have that open sewer in the middle
of it. But it goes down spoon probably several hundred yards. It goes
kind of twists and turns a few times, and then you can see light
coming through down at the end of the tunnel and there's another one of those
stone ladders and an opening up into the street. Oh this is where he
thought we came in from. Uh that makes sense. Um, so hey,
why don't we blog our head up through the hole there and just to
see where it comes out so we can maybe use it later. What if
there are thieves skilled people up there then see us and realize we're not a
part of the group, and we are pretty greet remember, yeah, credentials,
Yeah, we got it. We all got our badge, we all
we all just stuck those drawings, just like sticking. You use plastic swords
to sells. We're like a power Oh yeah, I'll let you do that,
all right, just kind of pook the thing up with my head a
little bit. It's like look around the groundhog it. Yeah, you go
down and poke your head up and it's uh, you're actually it's a storm
drain under a bridge. It's it's a bridge just over like a culvert.
Is that that's called? You know, it's quick rain water and channel it
down to the sewer system. Um, not a real bridge, but it's
it's yeah, it's sort of hidding. No one, no one around that
you can see, but it seems to be right in the middle of the
town. You do know. Um a restaurant you can see nearby. It's
like one of those uh build your own burrito places, but for bubble tea
it's called cue Boba. Got you that tickled me? All right? Cool?
All right, well there I see where it comes out. I think
we could find it later and we had to. Okay, curious what UT's
go back together way then? So back down you go. You head back
through this sort of twisty tunnel until you find that that access ladder to get
down to that room. There's still very much alive rust monster. You're you're
at the top of that ladder there. Do we know if a landers was
a rust monster. This one's at the bottom of the ladder. You can
see it through the hole here. It's still just waving those feathery little antennas
at the at the pipes and eating the dust that falls down, but it
does seem to notice pilding. As you walk up to the edge of the
hole and look down, it kind of perks up and looks way the antennas
and realizes it can't reach and goes back to the pipes. Look, oh,
it doesn't like you guys very much. You could probably like grab it
by the tail and drag it over. Wait what okay, well shit,
that was eaven. I'll go down. I'll go down the stairs and i
will go i will pull one of those daggers out, the newest one,
the one that I just got from the bag, and I'll be like,
here a rust monster, and I'll slowly step back away from it to try
and lure it with my new dagger treat. Yeah, so you go down
the ladder and you walk past the rust monster, and then you draw the
daggers, draw the dagger and this is shiny new steel, so it's it's
you know, tantalizing, and you get the things attention. It's slowly kind
of walks towards you. You're able to lure it away from the bottom of
the ladder. There a buggy the same thing, and it is distracted by
Pilsner for just a minute as he rushes past and then up the ladder,
and it goes back to looking at you with that dagger. You're rusty,
keep your eyes. I'm gonna I'm gonna steak back to and take off while
he's down there, and you get by easily. It doesn't even pay attention
to you, but it's it's still following you until you back up against the
wall. Oh wait, there's no ladder on this side. Oh you would
have to use let's let's retcon that real quick pills? Are you? You
can rush by it, but there's no ladder. What are you gonna do?
Oh that heck? Then we go back up the hole, So I'll
take your action to get the rope up there, and uh, yeah,
you're you're still gonna be down there at the bottom, I think, just
for any one round. Yeah, yeah, um, you know what I'd
like. But you guys are doing here. You're able to get the rope
up there and get up out of its reach before it it decides to go
after your Actually, I could probably no rope snake from where we're at over
to the other hole. And if I have to use a second dagger,
I'll do that, like toss one to the corner. Once Pilsner's behind,
you know, I'll just chuck it to the other side of the room and
have him go chase it. Jethy starts coming back, I'll pull another daggering
go get it, chuck it. I had five altogether, and I but
you already had more than So Yeah, you're you're able to get up the
rope and elm or you're able to get up the rope too, and ran.
You just wave that dagger at it a little bit and say go fetch
takes off after it and chirps real loud when he turns it to dust and
eats it trims heavily. Um, And yeah, you guys are back up
in that room. There's a door to the north, which is this.
This room does have that open sort of canal going through it between the two
doors there and under that door to the north, which is closed. I'll
sneak up and half a list, make a perception check seventeen. You don't
hear anything other than you know, the drips and running water in the same
same noise as you hear everywhere down here. Do you want to come check
it for traps? You're doing great, I'll check it. I'm gonna just
back away from the door. Yeah, that's like it's strapped. Probably get
to go. Okay, kick it in, kick it open. This last
flash breaks again, smacks into the wall and rebounds, which you catch it.
And this is a wider room. Um. The center of it is
a big sort of pool. The canal there or whatever runs into this pool,
and there's another one that comes out runs all the way through the room
on the west side of the room. You guys are sort of on the
east side of this room. Um. But this big pool in the middle
rooms about thirty five forty feet long, fifteen feet wide. The pool takes
up everything but the five feet around the edges essentially. So where we go,
elmer, aren't you leading the way? Scurry along the edge of the
pool. So there's the door to the north like in the northwest corner of
one in the southwest corner as well, um. And then you came through
the southeast corner. I'll go to the southwest. Then it's probably closest.
Yeah, I'm slowly got five feet. Yeah, I'll scurry over there and
i'll pop it open, all right, And it opens up to it the
same sort of tunnel. This one has a bend to the west of fifty
feet ahead of you. I'll go in and wait for them to join fee.
You guys had on through. It's going that way. Let's go,
all right? Who what's the orders? Rend first, then Pilsener, Pilsner
first, then Renn first, then Pilsner non, Elmer first, then Pilsner
then ren and Rends last. My bad, he's just walking through there with
you. And how about all right? Elmer and Pilser go through the system.
Ren As you're walking past this pool and about to step over the canal
there to go through this doorway, Um, something rises out of the pool.
It does not disturb the water a bit. Guys, guys, guys,
guys, guys. What look back. I'll look over at it.
It is inky black shape, which it's almost just a silhouette, long arms,
wings and horns, and probably about seven feet tome, but very shadowy,
almost seems to trail off to nothing. In the lower body. It
rises up from the water but doesn't disturb the water at all, as if
it's not even corporeal. Roll initiative. This concludes this episode of A Fool's
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